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Art in Pieces 2016

29/8/2016

 
Slideshow of daily progress...
The 1st image (Picasso's 'Mediterranean Landscape') starts on Day 1.
​The 2nd image (Henri Rousseau's '
Traumgarten') starts on Day 10.

Some thoughts on the show...

28/8/2016

 
Chrissie Russell...
After going to the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, I was trying to analyse why I was so inspired. I think it was the variety of techniques used by so many artists using different mediums and totally varied techniques. So as I view the exhibition at Ashtorre I feel the same thing. There are painting images that are inspired by music, pen and ink drawings that I’ve seen the instigation of at Looe, monotype prints in circles using different tools for mark making. I gaze admiringly at different methods of print making including drypoint, linoprinting, collagraph and chine colle. I linger by abstract oil painting and collage and I’m inspired by the minimal lines of life drawing. There are many more techniques used here to make art. What can other people see here?

Richard Allman...
I've been asked to explain my work so here goes... mine is mainly a graphic or drawing approach.  Over the years I’ve enjoyed working outdoors on large ink drawings and then completing them in the studio.

The series of FISHING BOATS AT LOOE were made like this, with quick indian ink drawings on the spot and patches of colour combined with the line in a free, unregistered way – so that the marks of colour sometimes overlap the line, flow away and have a life of their own.
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These are still at least half descriptive, a visual response to things around me.  But with the WOOD CONSTRUCTIONS I tried experimenting… even just playing with the components.  
Rather than responding to a subject in front of me, there was no starting point other than a selection of odd wooden pieces collected from the water’s edge from far and wide – and I started  drawing or composing with shapes and textures of wood (some of which clearly had a story to tell, had bits of indistinct lettering visible or patches of distressed paint) and added more patches of colour where the wood demanded it. 

Contrary to the Looe series, there is almost no illusion or visual description involved in the wood series – they are more concerned with instinct and intuition, but h
ow do you compare the two different approaches…..? Richard
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CAFE EXHIBITION

13/8/2016

 
In addition to our main show 'ART ON THE EDGE' we have an exhibition in the downstairs cafe exploring the subject of 'CAFE'.  Artists through the ages have been intrigued with the subject, maybe because a lot of time is spent debating ideas in cafe´s, who knows, but here we have another dozen or so new interpretations of the theme for your delictation!
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* Poster image by David Gamblin and is very loosely based on the Lookout Cafe in Looe
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